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Tom Reichert

Managing Partner, Angels for Agents · 3 appearances on the record.

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Tom Rikert was the co-founder and CEO of Masterful AI, which was acquired by Moloco, where he serves as Senior Director of Product Management. He was previously an enterprise software venture investor at Andreessen Horowitz and NextWorld Capital after working in product and engineering roles at companies including Google and Autodesk.

11statements → 8claims → 0claims resolved → 3.09/5average certainty → 1.91/5average debate potential →

8 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 predictions · 3 assertions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Tom argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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278 words/min while actually speaking · 33.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Tom Reichert: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,475 words across 3 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Tom Reichert said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Reichert: Long-term advances in on-demand 3D printing will disrupt FedEx and UPS
“Yeah, I think if you look at the long, long term, I actually would be short on FedEx and UPS. You know, like, rather than having to ship things around the world on airplanes, it wouldn't be great just to download the design and print it out, you know, right wh…”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:49 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
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Reichert: Personalized manufacturing will move from hobbyists into mainstream products
“Ultimately this could become not just kind of a cottage industry, but it, it's the way I think mainstream products are going. I mean, you look at products that Nike offers where you can personalize all sorts of aspects of your shoe. It's not three printed per …”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:58 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reichert: The core 3D printing workflow will evolve into 'rip, mod, fab'
“So I think in three D printing now, it's going to be like kind of rip, Mod fab, right? You know, like how do you scan in a design or take a design that's already there? How do you modify it? And then how do you fabricate it?”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:15 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
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Reichert: Software-driven parallel printer clusters will enable printing large complex parts
“It may be the case that you'll have a cluster of three D printers and you'll have software that farms out the, you know, big complex part into many printers and they'll all work in parallel and kind of proceed to output pieces and they'll be reassembled. So th…”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:42 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
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Reichert: Co-located industrial clusters will emerge for short-run 3D printed products
“I'm starting to see signs that are going to be these kind of industrial clusters, kind of like a little kibbutz of companies doing these kind of artisanal products. And so you're going to have people in the same, under the same roof, you know, like these littl…”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:50 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reichert: 3D printing is shifting from plastic trinkets to functional objects
“Today, we've often focused on printing objects with form mostly plastic trinkets, and now it's starting to be printing objects with function, right?”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:24 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
Insight
Reichert: Governments Cannot Abandon Tech Laggards Like Private Corporations Do
“And unlike a corporation, you can't fire those as customers, right? You know, the people are still on Windows XP. You know, they want to upgrade, and Microsoft eventually says, you know what? You can't upgrade anymore. You got to move on. You can't do that if …”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:08 a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software
Insight
Reichert: Consumer-grade user experience has surpassed traditional enterprise software design
“Like in the old days enterprise grade was like better, but I think today consumer grade, the consumer grade user experiences are actually the superior experience, and that's what companies are starting to build.”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:47 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Insight
Reichert: Non-programmers are replacing costly enterprise system integration projects
“And so, ultimately, I think a lot of what used to be kind of expensive, long-term system integration work, now that can be done by non-programmers, just the way non-programmers are using tools like Optimizely.”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:36 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reichert: 3D printing creates stronger, lighter geometries impossible with traditional manufacturing
“Yeah, and I think one thing that's very unique about three D printing is that you can print the simplest objects to the most complex objects. It's all the same to the three D printing system. So you can print things that before could never have been manufactur…”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:23 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reichert: Digital-Native Millennials Enter Public Sector to Modernize Tech
“I think there's a rising group of millennials and people who are technology natives who are now entering the public sector and looking at how they can bring their expectations and knowledge of how to use technology into their roles there, and also as citizens.”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:36 a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software

Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing Jan 2, 2019 7m
a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software Jan 2, 2019 4m
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Interne Jan 2, 2019 2m
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